I have been following your magnificent Ultima 3 for Mac for many years.

Me and my boys play through all the Ultimas periodically. The other day I was setting up Ultima 2 on my IIGS for one of my younger sons to go through, and on Asimov we noticed a new (from April 2014) upload of a double hires version of Ultima 2.

This is all news to me, but it says it's by Beastie. I'm assuming this is a work you did prior to the Mac Ultima 3 remake?

If so, would you mind providing any information on when you did this and what changes you made? Are any of the bugs (e.g. pirate ship, strength greater than 25 fixed) or patches (only finding tri-lithium in towers or dungeons) applied?

Assuming this is you, thank you very much for doing this. It's really neat and my kids are jazzed to see the enhanced graphics!

Thanks for confirming this. This is a pretty exciting find considering it was just uploaded to Asimov last spring.

My son is playing it right now so I can confirm the strength patch (going above 25) is in place, still trying to figure out about whether trilithium can be obtained from thieves or not.

You say you just altered the graphics and text but you also had to hack the assembly language code in order to change it from single to double hires, correct? Impressive regardless and a taste of what was to come with Ultima 3.